It's What's In-Cab that Counts
When first introduced, in-cab computers and truck monitoring equipment met with resistance from drivers. They saw it as an example of Big Brother watching...
Wireless in the warehouse
Keeping the hands of the pick team free to pick and not having to deal with paper is one reason some companies are moving to voice-driven communication...
Virgin Atlantic Airways uses RFID to track assets
U.K.-based Virgin Atlantic Airways has begun a pilot project to use radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to track critical, high value aviation...
U.S. Army launches $20 million asset visibility project
The U.S. Army has awarded a $20 million contract to ARINC Engineering Services and Impeva Labs to develop and demonstrate prototypes that integrate wireless...
Wal-Mart Uses GE to Track Its Trailers
GEs telematics product, VeriWise Asset Intelligence is a dual satellite system for precise monitoring of trailer assets, even if they arent attached to...
How Things Work: In-cab communicators
In a transitional phase from being considered an intrusion to being thought of as a business necessity, on-board computing and communications is seen...
Handhelds: In Search of an Enterprise Class Device
Could New Hampshire criminalize RFID?
Urging advocacy and involvement by industry, AIM Global and the American Electronics Association (AeA) say legislation currently pending in California...
RFID Comes to the Peoples Republic
Novetex Spinners Ltd., the worlds largest single-site woolen spinner, has begun implementing Gen 2 radio frequency identification (RFID) technology for...
Schneider National equips its trucks with weigh station technology
Truckload carrier Schneider National Inc. is equipping its entire company fleet with PrePassPlus pre-clearance transponders for use at weigh stations...
DaimlerChrysler deploys wireless solution to improve plant operations
Automaker DaimlerChrysler is using a Symbol enterprise mobility solution within its Kassel plant in Germany to reduce costs and improve worker productivity....
Down to the wireless
In the world of high-volume retail, the worst-case scenario is an empty shelf. For the top 100 retailers, stock outs amount to a $69 billion annual headache...
Get smarter with your supply chain
Are you hesitant to jump into a new technology or even upgrade current systems? You may be missing out on competitive opportunities. When most people...
U.K. may replace fuel tax with road tax
The U.K. could replace its fuel tax with a road use tax based on miles driven and time of day if a proposal by the U.K. transport secretary Alistair Darling's...
Columbia Distributing goes wireless to solve inventory problem
Columbia Distributing, a distributor of microbrewed beer and fine wine to 85% of the Pacific Northwest region, has adopted a wireless solution to resolve a major warehouse inventory management problem...
Symbol files Wi-Fi patent infringement suit against Intermec
Symbol Technologies Inc. has filed a lawsuit against Intermec Technologies Corp. The lawsuit, alleging Intermec's infringement of Symbol patents covering...
Increase Supply Chain Visibility with Wi-Fi-Based Asset Tracking
Symbol and Intermec sue each other for patent infringement
Symbol Technologies Inc. and Intermec Technologies Corp. have each filed patent infringement suits against each other. The legal wrangling began when Symbol filed against Intermec...
Listen up!
Consumers are notoriously fickle, and they tend to want what they want exactly when they want it. Whatever it is they're looking for whether it's a garden...
Wireless comes in handy in a courtroom, too
Wireless communication has the potential to help private fleets as well as common carriers in the area of accident reconstruction. Brian McLaughlin, marketing...
FMCSA looks at wireless logging of HOS reports
Part of the benefit of wireless communication is that driver logs for Hours of Service (HOS) reporting are sent to a company's base station and can be...
Intermodal freight center wins federal funding
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (www.rpi.edu) and the University of Maryland (www.umd.edu) have been granted $700,000 in federal funding to develop a...
Working without a WIRE
Because of the nature of its business, propane tank supplier Blue Rhino needs a portable, hand-held wireless unit that's rugged and easy to use. "The...
Symbol introduces rugged handheld for mobile workers
Symbol Technologies Inc. has introduced an enterprise mobility tool targeted at the retail and transportation and logistics industries.The new Symbol...
American Port Services deploys RFID solution for yard management
American Port Services (APS), a third-party logistics (3PL) provider, has deployed an RFID-enabled visibility system at a 60-acre cross-docking facility...
